Contradictions and Paradoxes in Malachi 2:5

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Malachi 2:5 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Malachi 2:5. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Malachi, God made a special promise of life and peace with someone because they respected and honored God with great care. This shows that when we treat God with respect, He gives us good things like life and peace.

Malachi 2:5: My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him [for] the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 31:31-32

It introduces a new covenant which implies a change from the covenant of fear mentioned in Malachi 2:5.

Jeremiah 31:31-32: Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

Contradiction with Hebrews 8:13

This verse declares the old covenant obsolete, contrasting with the perpetuity suggested in Malachi 2:5.

Hebrews 8:13: In that he saith, A new [covenant], he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to vanish away.

Contradiction with Romans 8:15

Emphasizes a spirit of adoption and not fear, opposing the covenant of fear as described in Malachi 2:5.

Romans 8:15: For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
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